The possibility of Pitts joining the team at right guard would continue Seattle’s upgrade along the offensive line.

Pitts said he should be ready to join a team by the end of June.

“The knee is doing great,” Pitts told FoxSportsHouston.com reporter David Dalati. “It’s structurally sound. Because I had to be off of it for nine weeks, it’s kind of a deep hole you climb in to. It takes time to get it back strong. But I’d say it’s about eighty five percent right now.”

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Sports Illustrated’s Michael McMann writes that the pre-draft question process needs reform after after revelations that front office executives asked draft prospects questions like if they were straight or gay, or if their mother was a prostitute.

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Gregg Bell joined The News Tribune in July 2014. Bell had been the director of writing for the University of Washington's athletic department for four years. He was the senior national sports writer in Seattle for The Associated Press from 2005-10, covering the Seahawks in their first Super Bowl season and beyond. He's also been The Sacramento Bee's beat writer on the Oakland Athletics and Raiders. The native of Steubenville, Ohio, is a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and a 2000 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism.